Man of La Mancha author Dale Wasserman died of congestive heart failure on December 21. He was 94.
Wasserman also penned the stage adaptation of Ken Kesey’s novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Ever the forward-thinking writer, he gave his wife instructions for his obituary months ago: “The only thing I would want the newspaper to say is this: He invented the phrase ‘The Impossible Dream’ — and lived it,” Martha Wasserman recalled.